Huge reduction in new CHAdeMO chargers being installed, figures suggest

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Morning, I’m Tom Riley and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a British EV newsletter.

Top story in today’s edition… Are CHAdeMO chargers on the way out? I dug into the National Chargepoint Registry and the figures suggest it is.

Elsewhere… BMW confirms £600 million to build the electric Mini in the UK, could hybrid vehicles get some leeway, and EV subscription firm Onto goes under.

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Is the CHAdeMO charger on its last legs?

Background: I’m sure we’re all aware, but just in case you’re not, CHAdeMO is a type of EV charging port that was developed in 2010 by a group of Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Toyota. For a while in the early EV days, it was the original rapid charging standard – capable of reaching speeds up to 50-100kW. There are apparently about a million EVs worldwide with an inlet, such as the Nissan Leaf, which is consistently one of t…